Join the Caribbean Equality Project for its 3rd annual Queeribbean Crossings conference themed “Solidarity as Resistance” hosted at Queens College, CUNY.

In recognition of “16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence and Human Rights Day,” Caribbean Equality Project, in partnership with the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium, organizes the free one-day community-centered conference, which centers critical reflections and collaborative discussions on transnational cross-racial solidarities and multicultural artistic expressions through a diasporic Caribbean LGBTQ+ lens.

The 2024 “Queeribbean Crossings: Solidarity as Resistance” conference features the Queens premiere screening of the short film Caribbean Queen and a discussion with the GLAAD Media Award-winning director Sekiya Dorsett. Annually, the conference brings together queer and trans Caribbean immigrants, asylum seekers, and Caribbean-descended activists, community organizers, academics, college students, and artists from throughout the region and its diasporas to foster critical conversations on themes of social justice, immigration, trans equity, decriminalization, mental health, sexual health, and other pertinent issues impacting LGBTQ+ Black, Asian, Latinx, and Caribbean communities.

Date and Time: Thursday, December 5, 2024, from 9 am – 5 pm
Location: Queens College (Student Union Building) – 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367
Free and open to all. Registration required!

In the 2024 iteration of the conference, we think critically about “solidarity” as a significant political practice, a way to build collective futures and rehearse what living in an equitable world in the 21st century could mean. We think together about solidarity as a way of doing decolonization work and crafting coalitions across borders, race, gender, class, ability, citizenship, and religion, among other social factors and realities. The conference will feature international keynote speakers, panel discussions, workshops, a health and immigration resource fair, and a closing cultural & drag showcase.

Particularly this year, the Queeribbean Crossings conference focuses on the following areas of resistance:

• Beyond Decriminalization: Storytelling as a tool of solidarity for collective future building
• Gender Liberation: Reproductive Justice and Legislative Reform Through Action and Education
• Building Community Safety: Organizing as Resistance to Attacks on Marginalized Communities